{"id":79383,"date":"2025-08-18T19:06:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/79383\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T19:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:06:16","slug":"nia-dacosta-had-one-note-for-28-years-later-the-bone-temple-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/79383\/","title":{"rendered":"Nia DaCosta Had One Note for ’28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’ Script"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNia DaCosta<\/a> has teased what to expect from her instalment of Danny Boyle<\/a>\u2018s 28 Days Later sequel, 28 Years Later.<\/p>\n

\n\tDaCosta took on directing duties for The Bone Temple, filmed back to back with Boyle\u2019s movie released earlier this year that featured Alfie Williams, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer and Ralph Fiennes.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt an Edinburgh International Film Festival<\/a> event on Monday, DaCosta said fans of the zombie apocalypse franchise will be seeing more of Spike\u2019s story and Jack O\u2019Connell\u2019s character in her movie, set for a January 2026 release.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMaking the 28 Years Later sequel was one of the best filmmaking experiences I\u2019ve had,\u201d DaCosta, director of The Marvels (2023) and Candyman (2021), said. \u201cOne of the issues I had with Candyman and Marvels was the lack of a really solid script, which is always gonna just wreak havoc on the whole process. But Alex Garland hands you a script, and you\u2019re like, \u2018This is amazing.\u2019 You don\u2019t really have to change it, although I did, I basically asked for more infected. [Laughs.] That was, like, my big contribution.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI inherited an amazing cast, then I was given the leeway to cast the rest of the film<\/a>,\u201d she continued. \u201cThere were a couple of locations I inherited. I was given the leeway to develop all the other locations. Some of it overlapped, like the character Samson \u2014\u00a0Danny and I would collaborate a bit on the look, but at the end of the day, Danny shoots so different from the way I shoot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe filmmaker \u2014 whose MCU instalment is the highest-grossing film of all-time directed by a Black woman \u2014 was in Edinburgh to discuss her varied career from Top Boy to the upcoming Tessa Thompson-starring Hedda, which is world premiering at the Toronto Film Fest next month. <\/p>\n

\n\tShe also went into a little detail about landing the job on one of cinema\u2019s biggest horror franchises. \u201c28 Days Later was one of my seminal films growing up\u2026 I had the DVD in my house. I watched it all the time. Obviously, fell in love with Cillian Murphy. And Danny Boyle is a bonkers fucking filmmaker. No one else can make a Danny Boyle film, and that was actually the biggest part of my pitch for the movie. I was like, \u2018No one else can do that and I don\u2019t have any intention of doing that. Here\u2019s how I see the film, what do you think?’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt turns out it was none other than The Zone of Interest helmer Jonathan Glazer who convinced her to take on The Bone Temple. \u201cThe time was so terrible because I was finishing Hedda and it overlapped slightly, and I was like, \u2018I can\u2019t do it.\u2019 I was at a dinner with Jonathan Glazer and I was like, \u2018He\u2019ll tell me not do it.\u2019 I was like, \u2018Jonathan, this script\u2019s come around and I don\u2019t know, do you think I should do it?’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s 28 Years Later and I [thought], the man who made Birth and all his unique, personal films is not going to tell me to do a franchise film. He goes, \u2018Do you like the script?\u2019 [I said], \u2018Damn it, I love it.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe New York-born creative spoke candidly while reflecting on her colorful career so far, from studying at Tisch School of the Arts in New York to her breakout movie Little Woods (2018). She spoke in Edinburgh the day of a retrospective screening for DaCosta\u2019s selected film: Doug Liman\u2019s 1999 comedy crime drama Go.<\/p>\n

\n\tEdinburgh International<\/a> Film Festival 2025 runs Aug. 14-20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nia DaCosta has teased what to expect from her instalment of Danny Boyle\u2018s 28 Days Later sequel, 28…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[48080,49,48,22303,44550,75,1554,77,48081],"class_list":["post-79383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-28-years-later-the-bone-temple","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-danny-boyle","tag-edinburgh-international-film-festival","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-international","tag-nia-dacosta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}